The lakes and the wetlands

Every named lake, lagoon, pond, wetland and spring the open map records inside the city, 9 lakes, 1 lagoon, 6 ponds, 8 wetlands and 1 spring: Te Waihora’s broad shallows, Horseshoe Lake’s oxbow, and the wetlands the stormwater network learned to work with. The rivers keep their own roll.

Lakes

Lagoons

Ponds

Wetlands

Springs

Unnamed beside them

854

What the record says

The largest outline in the record is Lake Forsyth / Wairewa, about 6.5 km² of drawn water.
2 waters reach the roll as bare pins, Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora and Redwood Dancing Springs, names without a drawn shore.
Only one water carries an access note, Lake Tahi, and it says “private”.
854 unnamed waters sit beside the named roll, about 31 without a name for every one that has it.

Where they sit

OpenStreetMap’s own pins, a lake’s pin near its middle, a spring’s on its source. The rivers and streams keep their own roll at /river.

The lakes

Albert Lake lake Brooklands Lagoon Te Riu-o-Te-Aika-Kawa lake Ferrier Fountain lake Horseshoe Lake Waikākāriki lake Kiosk Lake lake Lake Forsyth / Wairewa Wairewa lake Lake Rua Rua lake Lake Tahi Tahi lake Victoria Lake lake

The lagoons

Lake Ellesmere / Te Waihora Te Waihora lagoon

The ponds

Barnes Reserve Pond pond Creamery Pond pond Dalgety Pond pond Makitaki Pond pond Mill pond pond Westlake Pond pond

The wetlands

Bottle Lake wetland Cashmere Valley Lower Basin wetland Cashmere Valley Upper Basin wetland Cockayne Reserve wetland McCormacks Bay wetland Naughty Boys Island wetland Ōtukaikino Wetland wetland Platinum Drainage Reserve wetland

The springs

Redwood Dancing Springs spring

The reservoirs

Huntsbury Reservoir reservoir Matuku Lakes Matuku reservoir Wildlife Refuge reservoir

Questions, answered briefly

How many named lakes does Christchurch have?

9 lakes, 1 lagoon, 8 wetlands and 1 spring on the open map, plus 854 more drawn without a name, Te Waihora’s broad shallows, Horseshoe Lake’s oxbow, and the wetlands the stormwater network learned to work with.

Why do the big ones carry two names?

The dual names are the map’s own, the Māori name and the later English one recorded together. Lake Ellesmere is Te Waihora, Lake Forsyth is Wairewa, each page lists every name the map knows.

Are the rivers on this page?

No, the rivers and streams keep their own roll at /river, and live levels are instruments at /rivers. This roll is the still water: lakes, lagoons, wetlands and springs.

Where does the water map come from?

OpenStreetMap, every named lake, lagoon, wetland and spring inside the city boundary (ODbL). A pin is the mapper’s position for the feature, not a surveyed mark.

The record behind this

Named lakes, lagoons, wetlands and springs on OpenStreetMap, inside the city boundary (ODbL). A pin is the mapper’s position for the feature, not a surveyed mark; the dual names are the map’s own.

This page as markdown: /lake.md · the whole roll as data: /lakes.geojson · /lakes.json · every pin on the big map: /map?layer=lakes · every roll, counted: /geography.